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turquoisedude

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Or perhaps I should say "a James has been re-homed".  However you want to say it, that James Sweepflow dishwasher that surfaced in New Jersey made it safely to Ogden yesterday. It was one of my classic marathon road trips to get to New Jersey and back in a day but I did it!

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As you can see, I will want to replace the power cord before I do anything!

I was amazed to see the water softener dispenser glass still there and I did not expect there to be a silverware basket!

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It may be unfounded but I can't help but think I may be missing a rack section for the upper racking setup. What I seem to have doesn't jibe with what I read in the manual found in the library here. However that could be what came with this model.  No specific mention that it is a 'Deluxe' or a 'Premiere'.  Someone here will know!!  Mine has BDL on the nameplate.

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Eddie: I wound up doing the trip alone - we had a freezing rain followed by heavy snow event here and it hit Phil's neck of the woods WAY worse than Ogden...  Well, I got to see a part of New Jersey I had not previously been to!

 

Lawrence: Ah, you know me too well... LOL  The GE is cold and lonely in the garage but the new interloper is in the 'forbidden zone' in Ogden, so it has to go the basement soon.  Poor GE.... 

 

And I think I've answered my question about the upper rack.  The section with 'loops' for glassware sits on supports to go right down the middle of the machine, like I set the one on mine.  I was thinking of ads showing the James well and truly Bob-Loaded where a large platter was face down on the very top of the well-loaded upper rack - I think such a platter could simply sit on the middle rise of that rack section.  I'll play with it at some point to test its capacity... LOL

 

And, upon re-reading the manual, I seem to think the Deluxe model did not have the 'steri-cycle dry' switch.  I could be wrong (usually am... LOL).   I told hubby about the latter feature and he assures me he won't be bringing home any vials or beakers from his lab for me to wash for him anytime soon...

 
 
Counting stops at the border, gas fill-ups, and bladder emptyings, 7 hours 15 minutes.  The return trip took 7 1/2 hours and Garmina, my passive-aggressive GPS bot, sent me over cowpaths and deer trails diagonally across New York state to upstate Vermont.  On the way down, it was more or less I91 all the way (and I got to see the renewed Tappan Zee bridge!). 
 
Tom, I am not 100% sure, but I think the way it worked was that the glass was loaded with Calgon (the water softener additive) and the spray-fill would drop water into the glass and siphon it out as the water continued to flow.  I've seen the feature referred to in ads for the James("No more hard-water spots" was the blurb used) but I haven't seen one in action...yet!   

 

I will swear that I have seen a detergent dispenser glass for the James, too, but I'll be darned if I can find anything about it.  The manual I downloaded instructs the user to sprinkle detergent directly into the wash tub.  

 

This is going to be an adventure!!  
 
I grew up when I was very small (4-7 years old) with one of these. It was the lower-end model (no Sterile-dry; no dispensers). My parents' plates (Centura) fit in slant-ways, glasses fit on the racks on both sides. I don't recall how cutlery was handled. My mom definitely put the detergent in the bottom of the dishwasher (I remember feeling comforted that the Sears Kenmore they bought in about 1970 did indeed have a dispenser). The drain hose (which was separate from the fill hose--i.e. no unicouple) had a wire hook on the end to hook onto the drain grate so it wouldn't dislodge when it pumped out). The D-shaped "JAMES" timer knob was definitely the same...the straight section was how the glass lid popped up to dry. I don't recall whether you could close the lid fully without turning the knob--I seem to recall my mom running the dishwasher right after dinner.
 
Inside the James...

Over the years I actually have learned a few things about a test plan for vintage appliances ( usually the hard way). Instead of just plugging them in and hoping for the best, I try to do a least a little investigating first now....

And here's what I found with the James!

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